National Legal Writing Scholarship Opportunities

iCompeteWriting (ongoing)

iCompeteWriting is a joint project of Suffolk's Legal Practice Skills Program and Suffolk's Moakley Law Library. It is a comprehensive, sortable listing of more than 100 student legal writing competitions, including names, deadlines, award amounts, and other details. Please check out the competitions atwww.suffolk.edu/icompetewriting

Topic: The written submission must address the following topic: Consequential damage waivers are common provisions in construction contracts. In the past 50 years, our Supreme Court has provided very little guidance as to what constitutes "consequential damages." Therefore, based on guidance from other jurisdictions, and existing case law in our state, what are "consequential damages" and/or what are the key elements of recovering "consequential damages" in construction law cases in Washington?

Topic: There is no page limitation or restriction on the topic except tat the writing must be on a legal subject. Papers that have been submitted to a law review for publication are eligible, but the submission must be of the paper in its form before itw as edited by anyone other than the author.

Topic: Through this writing competition, AEF seeks to encourage legal scholarship on issues of importance to the Asian Pacific American legal community and, more generally, the publication of law review articles on topics of relevance to racial and ethnic minorities and the law.